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Position: Talent Acquisition Specialist - (Full-time, Remote)

Organization: Accelerate Change

Reports to: Vanessa Ruiz, Talent Manager

Location: Full-time, 100% remote position with occasional travel once every 2-3 months (post-COVID)

About Accelerate Change

Accelerate Change is a nonprofit (c3/c4) media lab dedicated to catalyzing new scalable and sustainable digital media models for citizen engagement. We are particularly focused on developing new digital media models that engage communities of color and low-income communities, as well as models that bring together diverse citizens across class and race. We focus on media ventures that are driving social change through news, education, and action. In 2020, we’re running nonpartisan online voter registration (OVR) and get out the vote (GOTV) campaigns. These OVR and GOTV digital campaigns are focused on communities of color, as well as youth.

Accelerate Change uses lean startup methodologies and other business strategies to help start-up nonprofit ventures and established organizations scale their digital media relationships and revenue. Here’s some more information on those strategies:

  • Functional Organizing: Our model is based on the idea that membership organizations can experience explosive, financially sustainable growth when they provide a robust set of benefits and services that have an outstanding value to the people they seek to organize (“functional organizing”). Learn more about our model for scalable citizen organizing in the article, “The Secret of Scale [1]” from the Stanford Social Innovation Review. 
  • Lean startup methodologies: Our approach is centered on identifying challenges and unmet needs in people’s lives. We use lean startup methodologies to rigorously test ideas for services and benefits that could help address those pain points and provide real value in people’s everyday lives. Read more about our approach to experimentation in the article, “The Promise of Lean Experimentation [2]” from the Stanford Social Innovation Review. 

Accelerate Change supports some of the fastest growing nonprofit digital media ventures in the country, with a particular focus on communities of color. We also work with a select group of established nonprofit organizations to experiment with new digital media initiatives. Our partners include: 

  • PushBlack, the nation’s largest nonprofit media platform for Black people, reaches over 8 million Black Americans each month with Black news, history, and culture stories.
  • Noticias Para Inmigrantes, a nonprofit news and education program for immigrants, provides bi-lingual news and information that empowers 1 million immigrants to navigate life in America.
  • Pulso, a national nonprofit media organization focused on Latinx communities, reaches over 2 million Latinx Americans each month with culturally relevant news and information.
  • ParentsTogether, a national, parent-led nonprofit media organization, helps over 2 million subscribers stay up to date on the issues affecting their families.
  • La Alianza, a digital news service for immigrants and domestic workers created by the National Domestic Workers Alliance, provides Spanish-language stories to hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Accelerate Change’s team of 14 central staff and 29 venture staff bring a diverse mix of tech, business, organizing, and media backgrounds that contribute to identifying solutions and developing new media and citizen engagement models.

About the Position

Accelerate Change is seeking a talented communicator who loves connecting people with opportunities to advance their careers and create social change. At a time when Accelerate Change and our network of partners are rapidly scaling (we’re hiring, a lot!), we’re looking for a talent sourcing guru to actively source a deep, diverse talent pool for our varied digital media roles. 

Here’s what you could expect to do as Talent Acquisition Specialist: 

  • Actively source candidates for all roles on different online platforms, like LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Build a diverse and robust pipeline and a network of engaged candidates who are eager to apply for new roles at Accelerate Change and our network of partners
  • Provide a positive, mission-centered experience to every potential candidate
  • Leverage creative techniques to identify, engage, and steward potential applicants
  • Identify opportunities to test innovative ideas for our hiring policies and processes
  • Create a scalable, efficient recruitment and equitable hiring process and setting best practices 
  • Provide hiring support for our network of partners, including but not limited to being a thought partner and a strong resource regarding hiring best practices
  • Support job description development, job postings, hiring logistics, employer brand efforts, and other related projects, as needed

What We're Looking For

In order to be considered for this role, you should meet these minimum requirements:

  • Commitment to social justice. Accelerate Change is a mission-driven organization focused on progressive social change and social justice, with a focus on communities of color. You have a demonstrated commitment to this work and you’d like to be part of a team of people who do, too.
  • Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism: Accelerate Change is committed to becoming an anti-racist organization. You are someone who thinks about diversity, equity, inclusion from an anti-racism lens.
  • 2+ years experience recruiting: We’re looking for someone who has at least 2 years of experience recruiting diverse candidates in a rapidly growing organization. 
  • Comfort with a high level of change: We work with startups, so things pivot frequently and priorities shift quickly. We’re looking for someone who prefers (not just tolerates) working in a fast-paced environment like ours.
  • Eager to work independently and as part of a remote team: You’re known as someone who gets things done and pays attention to detail. You prefer a mix of working independently to complete your tasks and checking in with colleagues from diverse backgrounds. You’d be comfortable working remotely with team members based all over the country and you’re no stranger to video calls. 

Additionally, having one of these skills or experiences is a plus (ideal but not required):

  • Recruitment experience in digital media: We’d be especially interested in hearing from you if you’ve recruited for digital media roles, remote roles, national organizations, and/or nonprofits. 
  • Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS): Familiarity with at least one applicant tracking system
  • Language: Fluent in Spanish (many of our ventures and partners work with Latinx communities) 

Accelerate Change is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that people of color, people from working class backgrounds, women, and LGBTQIA+ people must be centered in the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.


  1. https://ssir.org/pdf/Fall_2013_The_Secret_of_Scale.pdf
  2. https://ssir.org/pdf/SSIR_Summer_2015_PromiseOfLeanExperimentation.pdf

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